Hollywood can be pretty negligent about physics and astronomy, even in really good movies, but there are a few specific misconceptions that pop up again and again.
Movies mentioned (and potentially spoiled) in this video: Armageddon, Star Trek (2009), Total Recall (1990), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/ask_astro/space_travel.html
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Images:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/galleries/edge-on-view-of-near-earth-asteroids
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/nustar/multimedia/pia16695.html

Mars Cities and Moon Bases: SpaceX's Big New Plans

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced some ambitious plans at the International Aeronautical Congress. If he's right, we could have humans living on the moon and Mars within a decade, and you might never have an 18 hour flight again!
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http://www.spacex.com/mars
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Interplanetary_Transport_System_(29937258496).jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex/32996435084/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex/17071818163/

How We Used the Moon to Send Radio Messages

In the early days of the Cold War, it was difficult to send and receive messages across the globe. Before the US launched its first satellite in January 1958, the military tried a creative solution: bouncing radio waves off the Moon.
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https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explorer/explorer.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2#/media/File:Usaf.u2.750pix.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay_program#Relay_1
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/telstar.html

A New Binary Asteroid (That's Also a Comet!)

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Astronomers discovered something cool about an object in the asteroid belt (2006 VW139/288P), and the European Space Agency is conducting a bed rest study that could help us get on our way to Mars.
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Watch the talented Reggie Watts perform at the Exploratorium August 9th, 2012. Reggie was at the Exploratorium for an Osher Fellowship, and he graciously joined us at the end of a live webcast on Mars to share a little of his own feelings about the red planet!

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